@r_sweeney: "Yesterday a family member's PC apparently got attacked by a virus/worm.  It
made me think that doing a simple back up of essential documents isn't
really the most effective way to get a plagued PC back up and running.  Is
there an effective (cost & time)  way of mirroring an internal drive to a
removable drive periodically that wouldn't be too challenging for a non-savy
user? The idea being that when the virus attacks you can get back up
instantly by switching to the removable drive as the main HD until the
plagued one has been cleaned up.  Any Thoughts?"
    @DougQ: "<quote>
I spend days or even weeks carefully building a new PC's OS,
and as I reach a milestone that represents work I don't want
to repeat, I Ghost the drive in that state. I often but not
always create the drive image on a second machine, using the
program's ability to create peer-to-peer networking boot disks.
But some of those images span multiple CDs, and require a little
up-front work (you have to specify spanning on the command-line).
-dq"
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